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In the past decade, Australia has been successful in expanding the number of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) enrolling in tertiary education. The 2008 Bradley review into Australian higher education highlighted the critical need to expand tertiary educational opportunities ...

With reports that Sydney’s Warragamba Dam may soon burst, and with parts of Victoria and Queensland bracing for storms and floods, University of New South Wales engineers have a simple message for any motorist considering driving through floodwater: don’t do it. ...

All that collected information won’t help with the learning and teaching if it’s not measuring the right indicators. Universities around the world face increasing scrutiny, in response to rising costs and the demand that they differentiate themselves from their competitors. ...

A national report on the effectiveness of reform politely reveals numerous policy failings. As a consultant in VET for the last 24 years, engaged by many government clients, I have often seen examples of game-playing by those clients. For instance, ...

Diversity is an oft-used, and possibly overused, word in higher education – diversity of our students, diversity of our staff, diversity of our institutions and diversity of our missions – but what does a diverse system look like? Within a ...

The universe is possibly on course towards tearing itself to pieces, and a study involving Australian National University astrophysicists may have worked out why. The article, "A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant", soon-to-be published in Astrophysical ...

This is a transcript of a speech delivered by professor Brian Schmidt, the Australian National University's vice-chancellor, at the launch of the 2016 Crawford Australian Leadership Forum.  An innovative nation is one that readies itself for challenges not yet imagined. ...

Eureka! Again. An international team of 1000 scientists, including 43 Australian researchers from six universities, have proven Albert Einstein to be right, again, by discovering a second set of gravitational waves. These waves were detected after the collision of two ...

This week on Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Early Learning Review and Education Review discuss ways to attract and retain girls and women in STEM subjects, the disparity between lucky and unlucky young Australians and go manic for ...

Research suggests staff cynicism about vice-chancellor pushes for gender equity could perpetuate inequity. Professor Isabel Metz, from the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School, has gone into businesses and examined executives’ attitudes towards gender equity. She found many leaders are reluctant to publicly speak about the ...